A quick Easter side trip to visit my oldest and best friends in Indonesia led to an out of town adventure. […]

A beautiful piece on Surfline, as part of the upcoming surf documentary, Seawolf http://scotland.surfline.com/   Did you like this? Share […]

Rusting loneliness/ A theme park forgotten/ Waiting for new guests Did you like this? Share it:

I did a 2 week motorbike ride around Iceland with my Dad and a bunch of other good people in […]

A sense of energy warns of an impending approach.  Eyes open just in time to spin to catch the wave […]

Take a bumpy ride down a sandy, pot-holed road outside of Cabo San Lucas in Mexico, past a cement factory, […]

Ken Block, on fire in the streets of Los Angeles, in a dream car.  What would you give to be […]

Think NYC early Soho meets Palermo Viejo in Buenos Aires with a boho-industrial charm, and ghosts of Maoist factory workers […]

Some fast facts: One of the great budgeting and project planning blunders in history: when the project started it was […]

  “Wandering aimlessly”.  Its an interesting phrase, as it inherently has an aim, a purpose, a value. One definition of […]

I let the pictures speak for themselves! Did you like this? Share it:

In the morning I embark on the next adventure – riding a motorbike around Iceland with my 78 year young father […]

I hate to sound like I’m getting older, but the years really do go by faster.  Yet each remains rich […]

When my best friend Luke and his wife Grandtyana asked me to be Godfather to their recently born first daughter, […]

Today was hard.  105km may not seem much, but when the “road” is mostly gravel and sand, its a long […]

  Today was one of the best days of my life.  My sense of accomplishment, wonder and awe at what […]

As we approach the end of another year, that once again passed far too quickly, I felt like looking back. […]

foghorn mourns aloud/ last blossom forlornly drops/ good friends drift away       Did you like this? Share it:

black the deep water/ gold kelp fingers claw the sky/ paddle blade cuts glass Did you like this? Share it:

I saw a crazy video of a car tangling with a rockslide in Japan (see below), and it took me […]

adventure defy/ monotonous tedium/ like seasons changing       Did you like this? Share it:

For some of us (those fortunate enough to have grown up near a beach with waves), the magic of surfing […]

Ecuador is unique.  Bordering Columbia and Peru, its the only country that has stunning Pacific coastline, the towering Andes, Amazon […]

There isn’t much on the island of Isla Aguja, in the San Blas archipelago in the Carribean off the east […]

To think that a 1978 surf comp could have been a formative moment for my career might seem a stretch, […]

Floating over small swells, eyes closed, a tiny question of whether a rogue wave will collect me.  The rain rapidly […]

    One of those delving questions that people like to ask when getting to know another, is: “If you […]

Surfing in China – a Reminder As I sit here in China, a year later from my first post about […]

I’m in Ri Yue Wan Hai Men Village.  I think I’m eating tourist food, but I also think this is […]

Prelude:  I wrote this article back in 1994, in Hawaii, after Greg Welch became the first non-American to ever win […]

Cheetah on jeep, face to face, Masai Mara, Kenya Friends Don and Cate get up front and personal with wildlife […]

I’m very fortunate in life generally, but perhaps the greatest 2 weeks of my life was at the 2000 Olympic […]

  I may be jaded, but I just wasn’t feeling Beverly Hills today.  Don’t get me wrong, I love a […]

Coffee, tea and other drinks have played prominently in many of my global explorations.  I’ve dedicated entire days to finding […]

Each day choices must be made.  Living in Dana Point gives more choices than most, whether in what activities to […]

With some trepidation, I opened the sealed bag.   As an appreciator, excited to see and feel the oils on […]

I’ve been wanting to come to Cambodia for what seems eons.  It always seemed to have that “edge of the […]

Video action from one of the deep sand hills on the Dakar Rally.  This was one of the most exciting […]

  In different parts of the world, across varying degrees of industrial or economic “development”, bikes mean different things.  In […]

For those who prefer straight up visual images, rather than video, or lengthy essays.  The island of Hainan in China […]

If you think your holiday season is crappy, spare a thought for the Catalans, and the annual invasion of the […]

Sunday 8am in Buenos Aires in summer. Many portenos have fled the city humidity for environs like Cordoba. I crept […]

  Crack of dawn. The first rays of light are welcomed by a pretty bird with a yellow chest and […]

Sometimes it just makes sense to take in the moment.     Did you like this? Share it:

  I had an epiphany today.  Well, 2 actually.  The first, which I already knew but hadn’t found a succinct […]

  We had been riding at around 150km/hr for 2 hours over a high pass over the Andes between Argentina and […]

  I’ve been intending to write this story for a long time.  But epics are hard to start.  They are […]

  I’m very fortunate.  I live in a beautiful part of the Southern Californian coastline, from which a myriad of […]

  The waves crash on the beach below, sea foam rushing up the sand, dragging pebbles along like misshapen bowling […]

  Panama is one of several Central American countries with dual coastlines (Pacific Ocean and Carribean Sea), lush rainforest, great […]

  Not everyone wants a stuffed big cat, a mummified head, scary early dental tools or creepy mannequins, but the […]

  Even a passionate explorer and storyteller can get jaded by their own surroundings, but like introducing a new activity […]

  Dirt, dirt, dirt.  The intended route back to our starting point at Estancia La Paz showed 572km, more than […]

A mere 431km, with 54km of dirt, awaits us.  But I won’t be on a bike today.  A damaged shoulder, […]

Ahhhh, the rest days.  We have been punishing our bodies, and a rest day is much needed again, especially given […]

569km, 76 of it planned to be offroad. Today was the first day I felt good.  It was like I […]

Woke to see largish waves cresting and smashing onto the shallow bank of Iquique beach outside my hotel window.  Made […]

Even when woken by the dawn, and having spent the night on hard dirt, there is nothing better than the […]

Fear is often a part of adventure.  But sometimes its just not that enjoyable. A few hours after my police […]

Following the day of misadventure, got news at dinner that I didn’t have to worry about the bike: it had […]

Its a good way to start the day.  Riding with your mates from a mountain top hotel, with nary a […]

THE GOOD Jeff Gordon and his TV crew chopper at our first crossing of the rally The changing scenery: from […]

Estancia La Paz, about 35 miles outside of Cordoba, Argentina, which itself is 435 miles NW of Buenos Aires.  A […]

I  wouldn’t sensibly feel this unprepared, at least knowingly.  When I rode the Indian Himalayas in 07 after only 4 months […]

The centuries old, and little known, floating markets. Did you like this? Share it:

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Awoke to a scene of blue sky, blue ocean, tiny bulbous islands rising from the sea, magnificent old schooners and […]